/lit/ - Literature

Hey /lit/,

You're all shit.

Thus I make my final exit

From this meaningless empty pit.

>>3971863

But Zizek's basically just saying 12deep24u there.

>>3971864

If Stravinsky is classical, so is Fleetwood Mac. If you want to 'educate yourself' you shouldn't rely on wikipedia to think for you.

>>3971851

Stravinsky isn't classical, strictly speaking, so I don't see how your question is relevant.

>>3971804

I prefer literature to music, but it isn't fair to say that music (at least good music) doesn't require active effort.

I spent a large part of June trying to come to terms with Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, and all the polyrhythmic mindfuckery going on in there.

>>3971799

I think we need a new Rorty/Wittgenstein type figure who can stand in the middle and tell both sides that they're wrong and to cut the bullshit.

>>3971807

Relevance isn't relevant and nobody really cares about it anymore.

Sorry.

>>3971408

Hey,

If you're still on, I was wondering if you could tell me anything about Wittgenstein's relationship to poetry. I know he was big into Trakl and some others, so I'm wondering what he thought the philosophical significance of poetry was.

>>3970066

In what ways?

Just curious.

>>3969938

The Unabomber Manifesto.

Seriously though /lit/, should I feel bad that I found CoL49 more enjoyable than GR?

Burroughs' early work is decent.

Linguistics major here,

These faggots could have their cake and eat it too if they just realised that all you have to do is study foreign languages in addition to English.

>>3967280

You're assuming that I agree with Quine.

>>3967268

Well no, if you knew anything about science you'd see that my question doesn't have the form of a hypothesis.

Is language anything other than a type of conditioned behaviour?

>hardmode: no 'muh chomsky'

>>3964382

Ethics is soooo much cooler than ontology, anyway.

>>3964359

I'm cut, really.

>>3964341

Learning how to read might not be a silly idea.

>>3964319

The flower isn't beautiful.

What now, faggot?

>>3962651

>lumping my boy Debord in with Sartre and those other cunts

You just crossed the line, buddy.

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>>3962633

You are unbelievably retarded.

It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad. Or sad if it wasn't so funny.

>>3962607

I'm fucking serious. Rorty's entire approach is about as different from that of analytics as you can get.

>tells me to look up Rorty
>doesn't know I've read most of his works
>probably hasn't even read beyond the Wikipedia 'analytic' categorisation

derp, faggot.

>>3962610

>strip
>distillate

Okay, so metaphorS plural, but still.

You can't think properly because you're using shitty metaphors.